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      The Perversity of Gratitude

      Grant Farred

      "While recollecting his educational experiences in apartheid South Africa, the author grapples with the oppressive intent of the governing regime alongside its unintended benefits for his intellectual and individual development"--

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      Grievance

      Grant Farred

      Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.

      Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the…

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      Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

      Grant Farred

      In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South Africa

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      Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football

      Grant Farred

      Features a scholar and a soccer fan telling us what the game meant for him.

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      Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures

      This book showcases new and expansive possibilities for Africana studies scholarship by collecting works across disciplines that push the boundaries of the discipline into topics both broader and more specific…

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      Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures

      This book showcases new and expansive possibilities for Africana studies scholarship by collecting works across disciplines that push the boundaries of the discipline into topics both broader and more specific…

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      The Zelensky Method

      Grant Farred

      The end of Vladimir Putin's reign can be dated with precision. When Putin declared war on Ukraine with his February 24th, 2022, invasion, he guaranteed his own demise. Because of…

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      Fanon: Imperative of the Now

      Grant Farred

      This collection of essays marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanons classic study of anticolonial struggle, The Wretched of the Earth.

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      Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

      Grant Farred

      This book attempts to address crucial political and cultural issues in contemporary South Africa: the experience of being coloured, the occupation of the racial interstices, and the condition of hybridity…

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      Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football

      Grant Farred

      Features a scholar and a soccer fan telling us what the game meant for him.

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      The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy

      Grant Farred

      This book probes the cultural forces and legacies at play in three events in sports history, exploring how racial, national, sporting, and personal identities overlap and conflict. The author taps…

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      Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me

      Grant Farred

      Grant Farred examines the careers of international soccer stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to…

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      Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me

      Grant Farred

      Grant Farred examines the careers of international soccer stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to…

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      What’s My Name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals

      Grant Farred

      Whom does society consider an intellectual and on what grounds? Antonio Gramsci’s democratic vision of intelligence famously suggested that all men are intellectuals, yet within academic circles and among the…

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      In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body

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      Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an…

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      Martin Heidegger Saved My Life

      Grant Farred

      Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman’s racism?

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      An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America

      Grant Farred

      An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious –

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      An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America

      Grant Farred

      An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious –

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      Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now

      Grant Farred

      A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world

      Starting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate…

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      The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy

      Grant Farred

      This book probes the cultural forces and legacies at play in three events in sports history, exploring how racial, national, sporting, and personal identities overlap and conflict. The author taps…

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      Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA

      Grant Farred

      After a playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls. This book shows how this incident…

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      Africana Thought

      Grant Farred,David A. Bell

      Moving among Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean, this title demonstrates the vibrancy and historical roots of Africana thought and philosophy. It includes an essay that reveals the intricate…

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      Theory Now

      Michael Hardt,Grant Farred

      Essays on theory’s role in contemporary politics, reading and critiques of literature

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      After the Thrill Is Gone: A Decade of Post-Apartheid South Africa

      Grant Farred,Rita Barnard

      Offers an appraisal of what South African democracy has yielded and has failed to yield in the era following the heady expectations of liberation from apartheid’s multiple repressions. This title…

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      The Comic Self

      Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred

      A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself

      Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and…

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      The Comic Self

      Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred

      A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself

      Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and…

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      Far Memory

      Joan Grant

      During the last twenty years, seven books of mine have been published as historical novels which to me are biographies of previous lives I have known. Far Memory is the…

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      Winged Pharaoh: A Far Memory Book

      Joan Grant

      In ancient Egypt, a Pharaoh who by strength ofextra-sensory powers also became a priest was called a Winged Pharaoh.

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      Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far

      Amy Grant

      One of Americas most popular music artists bares her heart and soul in her first autobiographical work. With honesty and depth, Grant offers poignant and often startling insights on motherhood…

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      Far Memory, Autobiography

      Joan Marshall 1907- Grant

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the public…

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      Far Memory, Autobiography

      Joan Marshall 1907- Grant

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the public…

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      Far from the Tree

      Donna Grant,Virginia Deberry

      Two African-American sisters–Celeste, a doctor’s wife trying to maintain a facade of normalcy, and Ronnie, a struggling actress– inherit a North Carolina house after the death of their father and…

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      Star Wars Life Day Treasury: Holiday Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

      George Mann,Cavan Scott

      From George Mann and Grant Griffin, the same team that brought us the stunning Star Wars: Myths & Fables and Star Wars: Dark Legends, plus best-selling author Cavan Scott, this…

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      The Patent System Of The United States So Far As It Relates To The Granting Of Patents

      The Patent System of the United States offers a detailed look into the history of the U.S. patent system and the process of granting patents. Levin H. Campbell examines the…

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      The Passion Generation: The Seemingly Reckless, Definitely Disruptive, But Far From Hopeless Millennials

      Grant Skeldon

      Millennials are the most studied but least engaged or understood generation in America. Written by millennial Grant Skeldon, The Passion Generation is your guide to connecting with the young adults…

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      Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought

      Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa…

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      Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought

      Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa…

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